There is among the confessional
Reformed and Presbyterian churches a
loosely organized but vocal group of
writers who are intent on revising the
core confessional doctrines of
election, covenant, sacraments, and
justification. In this superb volume,
Guy Prentiss Waters has done the
Reformed community a great service by
providing a detailed and well
documented survey and a penetrating
analysis of the so-called Federal
Vision. Hereafter no study of this
phenomenon can be considered adequate
that has not paid close attention to
this volume.
-R. Scott Clark, Associate Professor of
Historical and Systematic Theology,
Westminster Seminary California
Preferring light to heat, Professor
Waters has done an admirable job of
allowing his interlocutors to speak for
themselves, offering clear-headed,
exegetically grounded responses to the
Federal Vision theology. Although it
probably won’t be the last word, this
is the best word so far on an important
and unfortunate debate without our
circles.
-Michael Horton